21 Jun

How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years

How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years

/* This was originally a comment made in response to a hacker news thread titled:  Ask HN: How to become a millionaire in 3 years? .  The comment has over 200 upvotes, which means people found it useful. I decided to add more thoughts, refine existing ones, and put it in a permanent place. This is just my own humble advice and I hope it’s useful for entrepreneurs.  */

I move forward the only direction
Cant be scared to fail in Search of perfection

-Jay-Z, On To The Next One

I’m going to go and replace 3 years with a “short time frame”. Some things to focus on:

Market opportunity- A million dollars is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly is a lot if the market opportunity is not large enough. Even if you put Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as founders in a new venture with a total market size of 10 million, there is no way they could become too wealthy without completely changing the business (ie- failing).

Inequality of information- Find a place where you know something that many undervalue. Having this inequality of information can give you, your first piece of leverage.

Leverage skills you know- You can go into new fields such as say Finance, but make sure you’re leveraging something you already know such as technology and/or product. Someone wanted to start a documentary with me. I said that would be fun, but it would be my first documentary regardless of what happened. There was a glass ceiling due to that. If I do something leveraging a skill I know, I’m already ahead of the game.

Look in obscure places- We’re often fascinated with the shiny things in the internet industry. Many overlook the obscure and unsexy. Don’t make that mistake. If your goal has primarily monetary motivations, look at the unsexy.  One example would be email newsletters, which I’ve profiled before.

Surround yourself with smart people- Smart people whom are successful usually got there by doing the same and have an innate desire to help those do the same. It’s the ecosystem that’s currently happening with the paypal mafia and can be traced all the way back to fairchild semiconductor.

Charge for something- Building a consumer property dependent upon advertising has easily made many millionaires, but it isn’t the surest path. It takes a lot of time and scale, which due to cashflow issues will require large outside investment probably before you are a millionaire. Build something that you can charge for.  That’s how business has worked for thousands of years prior to the 1990s.  Make something, charge for it, repeat it.  DHH explains this really well at Startup School 08.

Information Products Are Valuable- E-Books, screencasts, And anything that can teach others to be good at something is a very lucrative business.  Look at guys like peepcode… they’re killing it.  There are also things like Parrot Secrets, which make 400k a year.  Bonus points if the information helps a person make money (directly or indirectly) or improves their self image.  Fyi, this doesn’t mean sell snake oil ebooks.  That may get you a somewhere in the 5 figures, but word will spread that your shit smells.

Your primary metric shouldn’t be dollars- If you’re going after a big enough market and charging a reasonable amount, you can hit a million dollars. Focus on growth, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of the customer, and churn.

Get as many distribution channels as possible- There is some weird sense that if you build something they will just come. That a few “like”+retweet buttons and emails to editor@techcrunch.com will make your traffic explode + grow consistently. It fucking won’t. Get as many distribution channels as possible. Each one by itself may not be large, but if you have many it starts to add up. It also diversifies your risk. If you’re a 100% SEO play, you’re playing a dangerous dangerous game. You’re fully dependent upon someone else’s rules. If Google bans you, you will be done. You could easily replace the SEO example with: App store, facebook, etc.

Go with your gut and do not care about fameballing- Go with what your gut says, regardless of how it might look to the rest of the world. Too often we (I) get lost in caring about what people think. It usually leads to a wrong decision. Don’t worry about becoming internet famous or appearing on teh maj0r blogz. Fame is fleeting in the traditional sense. Become famous with your customers. They’re the ones that truly matter. What they think matters and they will ultimately put their money where their mouth is.

Be an unrelenting machine- Brick walls are there to show you how bad you want something. Commit to your goals and do not waver from them a one bit regardless of what else is there. I took this approach to losing weight and fitness.  I have not missed a single 5k run in over a year. (Here’s how I lost 50 pounds btw). It did not matter if I had not slept for two days, traveling across the country, or whatever else. If your goal is to become a millionaire, you need to be an unrelenting machine that does not let emotions make you give up / stop. You either get it done with 100% commitment or you don’t. Be a machine.

If it’s a mass market “trend” that’s all over the news, it’s too late- This means the barriers to entry are usually too high at this point to have the greatest possible chance of success. Sure you could still make a lot of money in something like the app store or the facebook platform, but the chances are significantly less than they were in the summer of 08 or spring of 2007. You can always revisit past trends though.  Peter Cooper and I clarified some of the semantics about what is a trend over here.

If you do focus on a dollar amount, focus on the first $10,000- This usually means you’ve found some repeatable process / minimal traction. ie- if you’re selling a $100 product, you’ve already encountered 100 people who have paid you. From here you can scale up. It’s also a lot easier to take in when you’re looking at numbers. Making 1 million seems hard, but making $10,000 doesn’t seem so hard, right?

Be a master of information- Many think it might be wasteful that I spent so much time on newsyc or read so many tech information sites. It’s not, it’s what gives me an edge. I feel engulfed.

Get out and be social- Even if you’re an introvert, being around people will give you energy. I’m at my worst when I’m isolated from people and at my best when I’ve at least spent some time with close friends (usually who I don’t know from business.)

Make waves, don’t ride them- There was a famous talk Jawed Karim gave from youtube. He described the factors that made youtube take off in terms of secondary/enabling technologies. I think they included (1- broadband in the home 2- emergence of flash, so no codecs required 3- proliferation of digital cameras 4- cheap hosting 5- one click upload 6- ability to share embed). Find those small pieces and put them together to make the wave. That’s what youtube did imho. The other guys really just rode the wave they created (which is okay).

Say no way more than you say yes- I bet almost every web entrepreneur has encountered this: You demo your product / explain what you’re doing and someone suggests that you do “X feature/idea”. X is a really good idea and maybe even fits in with what you’re doing, but it would take you SO FAR off the path you’re on. If you implemented X it would take a ton of time and morph what you’re doing. It’s also really really hard to say no when it comes from someone well respected like a VC or famous entrepreneur. I mean how the fuck could they be wrong? Hell, they might even write me a check if I do what they say!!!!! Don’t fall for that trap. Instead write the feedback down somewhere as one single data point to consider amongst others. If that same piece of feedback keeps coming up AND it fits within the guidelines of your vision, then you should consider it more seriously. Weight suggestions from paying customers a bit more, since their vote is weighted by dollars.

Be so good they can’t ignore you- I first heard this quote from Marc Andreessen, but he stole it from Steve Martin. Just be so good with what you do that you can’t be ignored. You can surely get away with a boring product with no soul, but being so good you can’t ignore is much more powerful.

Always keep your door/inbox open- You never know who is going to walk through your door + contact you. Serendipity is a beautiful thing. At one point Bill Gates was just a random college kid calling an Albuquerque computer company.

Give yourself every opportunity you can- I use this as a reason why starting a company in silicon valley when it comes to tech is a good idea. You can succeed anywhere in the world, but you certainly have a better chance in the valley. You should give yourself every opportunity possible, especially as an entrepreneur where every advantage counts.

Give yourself credit- This is the thing I do the least of and I’m trying to work on it. What may seem simple+not that revolutionary to anyone ahead of the curve can usually be pure wizardry to the general public, whom is often your customer. Give yourself more credit.

Look for the accessory ecosystem- iPod/iPhone/iPad case manufacturers are making a fortune. Armormount is also making a killing by making flat panel wall mounts. Woothemes makes millions of dollars a year (and growing) selling WordPress themes. There are tons of other areas here, but these are the ones that come to mind first. If there’s a huge new product/shift, there’s usually money to be made in the accessory ecosystem.

Stick with it- Don’t give up too fast. Being broke and not making any money sucks + can often make you think nothing will ever work. Don’t quit when you’re down. If this was easy then everyone would be a millionaire and being a millionaire wouldn’t be anything special. Certainly learn from your mistakes + pivot, but don’t quit just because it didn’t work right away.

Make the illiquid, liquid- I realized this after talking to a friend who helps trade illiquid real estate securities. A bank may have hundreds of millions of assets, but they’re actually worth substantially less if they cannot be moved. If you can help people make something that is illiquid, liquid they will pay you a great deal of money. Giving you a 20-30% cut is worth it, when the opposite is making no money at all.

Productize a service- If you can make what might normally be considered a service into a scaleable, repeatable, and efficient process that makes it seem like a product you can make a good amount of money. In some ways, I feel this is what Michael Dell did with DELL in the early days. Putting together a computer is essentially a service, but he put together a streamlined method of doing things that it really turned it into a product. On a much smaller scale, PSD2XHTML services did this. It’s a service, but the end result + what you pay for really feels like a product.

Look For Something That Is Required Or Subsidized By Law-  Motorists are required to have insurance, public companies have to go through sarbox laws, doctors get tens of thousands of dollars for EHR systems, etc.  Look for something that is required by law and capitalize on that.  Usually things that are required and/or subsidized by law are mind numbing with complexities.  Find a way to simplify that process.

Make Sure You’re Robbing A Bank- When Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he said because that’s where the money is (Thanks to edw519 for this phrase).  Make sure whatever you’re going after is where the money actually is ie- a customer that will pay you.  Consumer markets are tough, especially with web based products.  People expect everything to be free.  Businesses are usually your best bet.

Don’t Be Emotional- Emotions can let you make stupid decisions.  It can make you not walk away because you’re attached to something.  Most importantly it will lead to indecision and a loss of confidence.  Put your emotions into your product or save them for your lover, family, friends,etc.

Don’t Leave Things Up to Chance- People feel that things will just work out due to carpe diem.  They usually don’t  People can be unreliable, deals can fall through, and shit will always happen.  Prepare for multiple scenarios and contingencies.  You can mitigate this by working with smart AND reliable people.

Raise Revenue, Not Funding- Everyone is always so damn fixated on getting funded because it’s the cool thing to do.  Focus on getting people to pay you at first and then scale things outwards with funding IF and WHEN you need it.  If your goal is to make a million dollars in three years, funding probably isn’t the way to go.  VCs won’t let you take a salary of ~300k per year.  Selling a company in < 3 years is a crapshoot.  The lifespan of an investment is usually about 7 years from what I’ve read.

Don’t Get Comfortable- You will probably get comfortable somewhere around 200k, maybe less or more, but it will certainly be before 1 million dollars.  If you get comfortable you start getting off balance and having the hunger to move forward.  Reward yourself a little bit, but live as frugally as possible.  I have friends who have made some okay money, but blow it all away on stupid shit because they got comfortable.

Look For Those Who Are Comfortable-  Who is comfortable in a certain industry?  Go in and knock them off their hammock so they spill their mojitos on themselves.  This can also be considered stagnation.  Industries often mature and people get comfortable keeping the status quo.  Stagnation is the mid-life crisis for a former trend. This is usually a good point to come in with something.

Don’t Skimp on the Important Things- When it comes to things that need to be reliable such as infrastructure, delivery, or even your own personal tech equipment – don’t skimp out.  These are the tools that ensure reliability and your product being delivered.  You can skimp on the office space, the desks, coach airfare, budget motel in mountain view,etc.

Companies Spend Just as Much or More On Services as they do On Software-  Paying for the ERP, CRM, or custom built system is just the first step.  There’s the maintenance, training, and service contracts.

Keep The Momentum Going-  I’ve had projects where things were moving a million miles an hour, then BOOM, they just lost a lot of momentum.  That is the worst possible thing you can have happen.  Keep moving the ball everyday.

Listen (or read the transcriptions of) to Every Mixergy Interview You Can- Most of my audience will probably know about Mixergy, but I can’t let a single reader leave without making sure they know it exists.  It is by far the most practical resource on the Internet if your goal is to do well.  Andrew has interviewed entrepreneurs from all walks of life with varying levels of success.  Most of them had real business models and bootstrapped.  Most importantly, he finds out what specifically led to their success. Link to Mixergy.

Last, but not least:  Learn How To Filter- I just wrote upwards of 2,200 words.  Some of the points are even contradictitory.  Start adding in other sources of information and you will feel like you’re being pulled in a five million directions.  You then become indecisive.  Take in information and then filter the good bits while synthesizing them to be a part of your overall plan.  What works for person A doesn’t always work for person B.

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  • Guest

    so why aren’t you a millionaire?

  • Dude

    This could use some serious formatting/spelling/grammar review, but it's still great stuff — very thought provoking. Thanks!

  • Patrick

    Great post!

  • socksy

    “This means the barriers to entry are usually too high at this point to have the greatest possible chance of success”
    Well, this depends.
    Barriers to entry might exist because of high potential sunk costs – the initial investment may well lower the Average Cost curve to such an extent that other people's entry in to the market actually reduces barriers to entry.

    There are reasons I can think of when this won't be the case. The market might have the characteristics of a Natural Monopoly, where a monopoly would be the most efficient market outcome. However, this happens fairly rarely in most technological industries. For instance, ICANN might qualify (when was the last time you used AlterNIC?).

    What you're likely thinking of are what are known to economists as “Artificial Barriers to Entry”. These are barriers put up by existing monopolies or oligopolies in order to prevent competition from coming in and competing away all their products. Now whether you can compete with these depends on their nature – some are legal, such as patents or a legalized monopoly in transport for a city. Others are not so much. Think Microsoft's deals with manufacturers, or Häagen Dazs refusing to sell to shops which sold Ben & Jerry's.

    These can be competed against – sometimes they're against competition law, sometimes they're just not effective, it depends on the measure. In general, they won't be too effective unless the people have a monopoly already with significant lock in – if the market is only just trending, it's unlikely to be a very mature monopoly in that sense.

    Either way, I think it's important to distinguish between barriers to entry and artificial barriers – and to be able to recognise the differences between the two in potential markets.

  • Hot on Twitter

    Awesome post! Thanks for sharing your insights. My favorite out of the above points is ” I’ve had projects where things were moving a million miles an hour, then BOOM, they just lost a lot of momentum” – I've faced this so many times. On one day, I am moving at 250 mph and next day, not moving at all. Thanks!

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  • http://grenfeldt.com Jonas

    Awesome post!

  • Merl

    bees knees.

    bees fucking knees.

  • http://www.couchcampus.com Phaethon

    Very grating on the eyes, but extremely pleasing to the mind. Great read.

  • http://twitter.com/ElonBomani ElonBomani

    I know some folks that have excellent English skills and still broke….I'd be the first to tell you that I ain't great at the English language, but that didn't stop me or Henry Ford (eight grade education) from becoming millionaires!

    Elon Bomani
    http://lollipopbling.org/lollipop-bling/lollipo…
    http:/elonbomani.com

  • http://heptagrama.com Tedel

    Well, I read your article. I found it somewhat too focused on making money on the Internet, but it wasn't a bad try.

  • http://2012prophecy.net DM I.M.Cango

    good ideas and elegant themes rocks.

  • http://twitter.com/jjraju Jaison J. Raju

    speechless…thank you for writing this.

  • Who

    You lost me at “Smart people whom are successful…”

  • Jacques

    Yes, with your bad grammar, this will not work.

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    I plan on doing a more thorough grammar review at some point, but wanted to throw it up while the original thread was still fresh+relevant.

  • http://prezwho.com/ PreZ

    thank for letting me know about mixergy! I didnt know

  • http://twitter.com/ShirleyOM Shirley Osei-Mensah

    This is a really great article, Jason. It's just too much (in a positive sense :) ). Thanks very much for sharing all these great tips. I really appreciate it :) . I've learnt a really great lot just by reading your article. Thanks again :) .

  • http://www.facebook.com/FurnessPoker Paul Robinson

    some fascinating points, I have always tried to think outside the box when making money, never giving up, I am a millionaire waiting for the bank balance to catch up

  • http://broketycoon.com Jimi

    Great Stuff!

  • Martin

    Humorous and informative, really nice.
    I will do my best, wanna help me? :-)
    http://www.martin-kolinsky.com
    I do not have excellent English skills either.

  • http://www.infinimedia.com Brian Breslin

    great post J. Glad to see you've still got the fire in your belly for this stuff. probably the best post I've read on here. keep up the great work

  • elizabethhannan

    Great article! Lots of common sense ideas. i would add “Take a step back” every now and then and reevaluate your actions from a birds eye view. Make sure your products make your goals and long term objectives.

    I particularly enjoyed your comments about making money. Seems many people miss the boat on this completely! Every individual's talent is worth a nominal value.

    Thanks for the thoughts!
    http://www.twitter.com/elizabethhannan

  • Ryan Esaki

    great post!

  • Riyad Kalla

    I saw this title 4x on two different sites and ignored it for 2 days until I saw it again on Twitter from the founder of GetClicky and thought “that dude usually doesn't like fluff” so I gave it a read finally and am really glad I did. No fluff in here, just some nice sound advice clearly spelled out.

    Really appreciate you taking the time to write all this down and share it.

  • http://www.charmainelimblog.com Charmaine

    Very practical approached though I agreed that we need to filter the good bits and “What works for person A doesn’t always work for person B.”

  • Mouville

    Excellent points. Please tell me you're not making a million from writing English, though?

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    thank you Ryan!

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    It's always needed to remove yourself from the pressure. Sometimes you get overwhelmed and lose perspective.

    re: individual's talent as a nominal value: I'm a fan of the Joker's quote in the dark knight: If you're good at something, never do it for free.

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    whoa, just saw this comment now. It never showed up in my email. Really appreciate the support (now and through the years).

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    I <3 elegant themes. I've been using them for a while and you can't beat the value. Woothemes is great too, but elegant has a distinct + different style.

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    You could apply it to different areas of business. In some ways, id say it's counter intuitive to the internet business.

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    If I could frame this comment on the wall, I would. Hell, I might.

  • Done It Myself

    How to become a millionaire in 2 months.
    Figure out how to make $16k a day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Job-Ballard/701975465 Job Ballard

    this is why i love the net, can you picture gathering all this info then writing an article then having some guy from kenya read it and think – fucking awesome! love the net and thanks for this.

  • elizabethhannan

    “If you're good at something, never do it for free.” — The Joker

    This is phenomal quote; so relevant and a personal favorite of my own
    as well! The joker refects on many facets of the human condition.

  • http://entrepreneurshipvideo.com Florian Komm

    Thank you. Excellent post!

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    It's the shrapnel that sticks, that makes this post killer.
    for me you hit on 10 things that were decision making gold-> slap this puppy in a crowd voting hn like scaling system and monitor which points boil to the top. Better yet, only let successful entrepreneurs (like your mentioned mixergy crew) vote.

  • http://www.cathiejoyyoung.com cjy

    cool

  • masona3

    Jason,

    I seldom read articles like this because they tend to be high level bullshit. This, on the other hand, is an amazing collection of ideas and solid advice. Thank you.

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    You're welcome :) . The title at first glance might make it seem that way.
    Only reason I used it was due to the original question asked on hacker
    news.

  • http://twitter.com/coldclimate cold climate

    Sod the grammar, its readable and feels like gold :)

  • http://www.MemberCon.com Tim Bourquin – MemberCon.com

    Damn, every once in a while I come across a post I wish I had written. This is one of them. Nicely done.

    Only one other thing I might add (you alluded to it but didn't say it directly):

    DO SOMETHING – anything – just take action. Perfection is the enemy of good enough. And “good enough” has made more millionaires than “perfect” ever has. There will never be the “perfect time” to start so just get on with it!

  • http://twitter.com/apaniyam Adrian

    Dieus ex machina, not carpe diem. Great article though.

  • http://seekingminds.com Rich LoPresti

    Great Post! I am glad i came across your article. Via: http://vaynermedia.com/2010/06/linky-the-top-5-…
    Just goes to show you what EFFORT can do for you (YOU GET NOTICED)!

    Mixergy is great – there are also a few other vidoe sites i like as well: http://www.therisetothetop.com/ and http://5by5.tv/pipeline/18

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    Thank you Rich!

    Sent from my iPad Nano

  • Agilandam

    I just loved the last one… especially ” I just wrote upwards of 2,200 words. Some of the points are even contradictory”

    I just copy pasted the entire article in word and saved for my future reference.
    Thanx a lot and i am glad i was directed to this post.

    Kasi

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  • karolisk

    Awesome! Loved this post.

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    Thanks!

    Sent from my iPad Nano

  • marko

    yes, lets do something. often the timing is important but this is also an issue for the next generation and was an issue for the generation before us. if you have got an idea and you are well prepared for the start up, the you can choose the right time.
    if you have an idea and you wait until the right time is comming, then probably, somebody else is well prepared for the start up.

    “thermo battery” driven stirling engines which drives generators

    http://challenge.ecomagination.com/ct/ct_a_view…

    in case you like this idea, pleae vote for it.
    You need to register to vote or submit your ideas.

    thanks, marko

  • Martin

    if you put sunflower seeds into soil, not all may grow a flower. it depends on your care and on other things (some people might call it luck). but one thing is sure, after some time, some of them will grow and carry much more seeds than you putted into soil.

    Never stop trying and you will see the positive result.
    If it does not make you millionaire, you may gain skills and knowledge for other projects.

    http://www.sourcingandconsulting.com

    Lets continuo good work and keep up the good spirit even some times it is very hard.

    regards,
    Martin

  • http://www.financemetrics.com/how-to-become-a-millionaire/ ways to become a millionaire

    In order to become successful it is important to choose the best opportunity available to you. The wealthy become successful by finding a niche for themselves. The majority of wealthy people are self employed entrepreneurs. It is a fact that entrepreneurs are four times more likely to become millionaires than those who work for others.

  • Bill Willams

    are you a self made millionaire?

  • Nipun

    Inspirational and well thought out… :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rupesh-Pawani/100000239152906 Rupesh Pawani

    The main reason I want to make money because I have a boyfriend whom I love, but she is from USA and I am from Ireland. I work so hard at my job to visit him once or twice a year, and it is almost impossible for me to get a U.S. visa, unless I marry my girlfriend ….. I do not want to do a few more years because I have no money or property. We are both so sad when we leave each other that we never know when we meet again.
    http://www.tipsforinvesting.net/how-to-become-a…

  • http://www.craigery.com Craig

    I'm going to be using this as my new bible…

  • http://twitter.com/JimKukral Jim Kukral

    Wow this is a great post.

  • http://twitter.com/dbashyal Damodar Bashyal ✔

    gr8 post

  • http://www.jasonlbaptiste.com Jason L. Baptiste

    Thank you!

    Sent from my iPad Nano

  • William

    Your weakness is your power and your imagination is your perfect example of holding to much of perfection. However, being best at what you at is simply turing an imagination to idea and idea to reality. Your kick off is your imagination. ;-) This is why scientists had tried all possibilties to rewrite imagination but way too powerful for them because it is the most undestroyable software that humans can have. So take action today what you dream is not so far from becoming your tomorrow’s thing…

  • Ingrid

    This is my 3 time reading this. I just finished writing the business plan for my newsletter business. This helped alot as well as your email newsletter article. Very instruction. It underscored alot of what I already knew.

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    your open and candid information you share with others is an ingredient right there for your success, your tips are quite helpful. Thank you.

  • Ajbelair

    Very helpful for a new entrepreneur (3 yrs in to his own business) I am an Auto Tech with his own good sized, quite busy Auto Repair / Sales business (Who’s head is spinning wildly with all the newly realized realities of business [i.e. not just fixing cars/charging customers/ putting the money in the bank/ paying the bills and hope there's something left over for me] ) I am VERY grateful for the others who have gone before, sharing with great generosity, their experiences and their wisdom… I have always been a believer in living/learning life off of others mistakes / successes…Saves oneself much time and angst…Thank You to you all…Have a Wonderful Christmas / Holiday and here’s to an AWESOME 2011… Andy

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    However, thanks to PayPal and the Internet,
    the investment is now virtually ZERO!
    And what‟s more,
    the entire process is FASTER, EASIER,
    and MORE LUCRATIVE than it has EVER been!
    I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it:
    Make Money with your Paypal account as shown on Oprah!
    “A little while back, I was browsing through news groups and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial inves-tment of $6.00!
    So I thought, “Yeah right, this must be a scam”, but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send only $1.00 to each of the 6 email addresses stated in this article.
    You then place your name and address at the bottom of the list at the # 6th position and email it to your friends as well as post this message (with your email address in the list) to at least 200 newsgroups.
    (There are thousands)
    No catch that was it.
    So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it.
    I figured “what have I got to lose except $6.00, right?”
    So I invested the measly $6.00
    Well GUESS WHAT!!
    Within days, I started getting money coming into my Pay Pal account!
    I was shocked!
    I figured it would end soon, but the money just kept coming in.
    In my first week, I made about $25.00, which means that 25 people joined the group after they saw my posted messages.
    By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1000.00!
    In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it‟s still growing.
    This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and it‟s still coming in rapidly.
    It‟s certainly worth $6.00, and the few minutes it took to join Paypal.
    I have spent more than that on the lottery!
    Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, why it works. Also, make sure you pri-nt a copy of this article NOW, so you can get the information off of it, as you need it.
    I promise you that if you follow the directions EXACTLY, that you will start making more money than you thought possible by doing something so easy!
    SUGGESTION:
    Read this entire message carefully!
    Follow the simple directions and watch the money come in, it‟s that easy!
    It‟s legal. And, your investment is only $6.00.
    IMPORTANT: This is not a rip-off; it is not indecent; it is not illegal; and it is virtually no ri-sk-it really works! If all of the following
    instructions are adhered to, you will receive extraordinary dividends.
    AGAIN, PLEASE NOTE:
    Follow these directions EXACTLY,
    and $20,000 or more can be yours in 4 to 6 weeks.
    This program remains successful because of the honesty and integrity of the participants.
    Please continue its success by carefully adhering to the instructions.
    In this business your product is not solid and tangible, it‟s a service.
    You are in the business of developing Mailing Lists.
    Many large corporations are happy to pay big bucks for quality lists.
    However, the money made from the mailing lists is secondary to the income, which is made from people like you and me asking to be included in that list.
    Here are the 4 easy steps to success:
    STEP 1:
    Take a few minutes to join Paypal: http://www.paypal.com
    Paypal
    The Internet‟s most trusted Internet banking system for your future income.
    When creating your Paypal account make sure you use the same Email address as your user name in the list below so people can send money to your account.
    STEP 2
    Once you have a Paypal account running, use Paypal to post $1 to EACH of the 6 Email A-ddresses below because you pay people with an email address in Paypal.
    To do this you may need to use a credit card, which is very easy, and secure so nobody but Paypal may see it.
    If you don‟t have a credit card show this great lucrative offer to someone that has one and get them to help you pay the $6.
    What you are doing is creating a service.
    This is absolutely legal!
    You are requesting a legitimate service and you are paying for it!
    Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it all.
    But I looked around and did some homework and found it was perfectly legal.
    Here are the 6 individual Email addresses that you have to send $1 to through Paypal for this to work properly and for you to receive money.
    (If you don‟t send the money and decide to post the message with your name in it anyway, P-aypal will instantly pick this up and terminate your account, immediately, besides the other p-enalties!!
    If you did this you could get into serious trouble because it is fraud. (So follow the instru-ctions and post the $6 and you will make lots of money with no hassles.)
    Now send $1 to each of these following email – addresses through your paypal account and pay $1 to each the following 6 email- addresses
    These email addresess are PayPal IDs or usernames:
    1 antoinette1113@yahoo.com
    2 calibaygurl@yahoo.com
    3 ltownballer7@hotmail.com
    4 tiggerluv321@aol.com
    5 Angel7th@gmail.com
    6 caesarthwabi@hotmail.com
    STEP 3
    Now,… after paying $1.00 to each of the email placements above, take the #1 Email Address off the list, move the other Email Addresses up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc.) and add Yo-ur Email Address as number 6 on the list.
    STEP 4
    Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close to the original as possible.
    Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups (there are thousands of groups).
    And email your message to as many people you can. Remember, the more you post and email the more money you make! This is perfectly legal!
    IMPORTANT: This is not a rip-off; it is not indecent; it is not illegal; and it is virtually no risk-it really works! If all of the following
    instructions are adhered to, you will receive extraordinary dividends.
    PLEASE REMEMBER
    this program remains successful because of the honesty and integrity of the participants and by their carefully adhering to the directions.
    You are simply paying into a money making chain of participants and if the chain is broken you are screwing someone else out of their fair share.
    So, as each person who joins the family and the directions are followed, six members will be reimbursed for their participation as a List Developer with one dollar each.
    You then insert your Email Address into the list and it will move up geometrically.
    So that when your name reaches the #1 position you will have potentially received thousands of dollars into your account!!!
    What an opportunity for only a total of $6.00!!
    $1 for each of the first six people listed above
    To begin with,
    please send you‟re joining fee now (which is $1.00 to each email address listed above) then add your own Email Address to the list and you‟re in business!
    HOW TO POST TO NEWS GROUPS:
    Use Netscape or Internet Explorer and try searching for various newsgroups(on-line forums, message boards, chat sites, discussions.)
    Log on any search engine like yahoo.com, google.com, altavista.com, excite.com, etc., then search with the subject ”millionaire message board” or ”money making message board” or ”employment message board” or ”money making discussions” or ”money making forum” or ”business message board” etc.
    You will find thousands and thousands of message boards.
    Click on them one by one and you will find the option „post a new message‟. Then Post this article as a „new message‟ by highlighting the text of this letter and selecting copy then paste from the edit menu.
    Fill in the Subject, this will be the header that everyone sees as they scroll through the list of postings in a particular group, click the post message button.
    You‟re done with your first one! It only takes about 60 seconds to complete postings on mes-sage boards after you catch on.
    REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!!
    BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200!
    That is it
    You will begin receiving money in your account from around the world within days!
    JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.
    Now the WHY part out of 200 postings:
    Say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example).
    So then I made $5.00 with my name at #6 on the letter.
    Each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with m

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  • Geoff Stuart

    Hey Jason,

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